In today's manufacturing industry, sheet metal bending has penetrated into many industries, such as automobiles, household appliances, electrical, kitchenware, electronics and consumer goods. Bending process plays an important role in the whole sheet metal processing process. The quality of bending process directly affects the final size and appearance of products.

Current situation and existing problems of sheet metal manufacturing plant

At present, most sheet metal manufacturers in China are labor-intensive enterprises, with low automation, informatization and intelligence level, relatively isolated production management system, and decentralized and opaque data. With the great challenge of production cost and efficiency, the contradiction between insufficient labor capacity and high-precision product manufacturing demand is becoming more and more obvious. How to achieve good and fast product realization is an urgent problem for sheet metal manufacturing factories.

At present, the main outstanding problems of sheet metal factory are as follows:

1. Outdated equipment and backward technology

At present, the scale of sheet metal manufacturing factories in China is different, and there are a large number of small workshop sheet metal manufacturing factories. These enterprises have obsolete equipment, mainly manual operation, and can only produce low-precision products. Some sheet metal manufacturing factories have advantages in the industry, but the overall level of sheet metal technology is backward. Most of the equipment used is imported from abroad in the early 20th century or earlier. At the same time, the new technology that has been mature in foreign countries is applied less or stays in the initial stage in the domestic sheet metal manufacturing process.

2. Low level of informatization and digitization

At present, most domestic sheet metal manufacturing plants are independent units based on business. The organization and management of information in enterprises mainly rely on people, rather than management system. Enterprise internal information flow is not smooth, the lack of a collaborative working environment, can not realize the sharing of resources and knowledge, production efficiency is low.

3. Low production capacity of some production lines

At present, most sheet metal manufacturing plants do not have a production line based on the process. The existing production line technology and equipment level is low, the process layout is unreasonable, the product precision and quality is not high. Compared with foreign advanced technology, in the field of high-precision product manufacturing and advanced sheet metal forming technology, the domestic sheet metal industry is still in the exploratory stage and has not formed large-scale production.

Bending process plays an important role in the whole sheet metal processing process. The quality of bending process directly affects the final size and appearance of products. In addition, compared with other machining processes in sheet metal processing, bending process puts forward higher requirements on the operation skills of employees. The skill level of operators and whether they are experienced or not will directly reflect the effective operation rate of bending machine.

Automation of sheet metal bending is promising

In the process of sheet metal bending forming, one operator is required for each bending machine in traditional operation. Because all walks of life on the variety of product requirements, the number is huge, and the bending machine belongs to the dangerous category of higher production equipment, safety risks are relatively large, this production process is becoming a heavy and high risk of physical work, so the replacement of manual work with robots has gradually become an inevitable trend of development.

Compared with the artificial bending robot, the advantages of efficiency, safety and quality are reflected in three aspects, the first two advantages are obvious, the quality of the advantages are mainly reflected in two aspects: one is the bending robot positioning accuracy, good repeatability; The second is to prevent accidents caused by workers' fatigue.

Sheet metal manufacturing is a basic processing industry, which is widely used in many fields such as automobiles, electronic appliances, construction machinery, etc., with the rapid development of the industrial field. The sheet metal manufacturing industry will be transformed from a single automation unit to an integrated automation facility, and the sheet metal manufacturing industry is developing towards the direction of digitalization, integration and intelligent informatization. Sheet metal factory is re - intelligent, information, digital direction transformation, ready to meet customers with a new look.